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  • Number of conflicts worldwide up slightly 11 Oct 2008 05:30 GMT
    ... and night vision of Western armies. “In Congo, Kenya, Somalia — all of these places ... $268.2 billion. China committed $121.9 billion to defence, Russia $70 billion, constitutionally pacifist Japan $41.1 ... 40 per cent of the world’s conflicts. Europe has 3.3 per cent of the total. Project ...

  • Canada and Africa: The opportunity to make history 9 Oct 2008 22:28 GMT
    ... and I salute the Ottawa Citizen for commissioning it. Of course all generalisations about Africa ... a plot to murder Patrice Lumumba, the Congo's first elected leader and, for the next ... weak and poor. At the same time, European and North American farmers are subsidised to ...

  • Comment: Bringing Peace to the Kivus 9 Oct 2008 06:37 GMT
    ... since the official end of the Second Congo War, but in North Kivu province the ... to the mediation of the United Nations Mission in the DRC, MONUC. This led the ... forces on the ground. Artemis was a European Union-led mission in Ituri brought in to ...

  • Rwanda: Government Denounces Neighboring DRC 8 Oct 2008 20:31 GMT
    ... the alliance between the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) army Forces Armées de la République ... written to other partners, whether it's the EU, whether it's on our own African continent and ... negated allegations that the country was amassing troops on the border with DRC, among others. ...

  • Into AFRICOM 8 Oct 2008 13:00 GMT
    ... most of Africa were administered by U.S. European Command (USEUCOM). Central Command (CENTCOM) had a ... 1990s the structure remained, despite the Great Congo War (which still simmers, with 4 million ... not degenerate into a battlefield. The headquarters' mission statement emphasizes interagency cooperation. AFRICOM "in concert ...

  • Wednesday, October 15 8 Oct 2008 05:54 GMT
    ... troops, enter Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo, ending President Pascal Lissouba's four-month struggle to ... unearthed World War II bombs. 2007 - European Union foreign ministers give their final approval ... their final approval to deploy a 3,000-strong EU peacekeeping force for one year to help ...

  • Piracy shock hits regional economy 8 Oct 2008 01:13 GMT
    ... chairman of the Parliamentary Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations, that has lately been ... surge in premiums, ships plying the far East-Europe trade and wish to avoid the pirates-infested Gulf ... and exports to Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, eastern Congo, southern Sudan and Ethiopia. This means that ...

  • "Operationalising R2P in Coercive Peace Operations" 7 Oct 2008 07:28 GMT
    ... is assumed from the outset that the mission, while primarily designed to hold together a ... none of the relevant multilateral organizations—the UN, EU, AU, ECOWAS, or even NATO—have doctrine designed specifically ... UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC), the mandate spelled out in Security ...

  • State of the Union speech, 7 Oct 2008 05:57 GMT
    ... the reinforcements they need to complete their mission. Our goal is a democratic Iraq that ... of the Quartet -- the U.N., the European Union, and Russia -- we're pursuing diplomacy ... proud to call this son of the Congo a citizen of the United States of ...

  • Deadly virus not airborne   7 Oct 2008 04:18 GMT
    ... 80percent or higher chance of being transmitted. Transmission occurs through bodily fluids, like being exposed ... Africa include Marburg, Ebola, Rift Valley fever, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, Lassa fever- related arenaviruses, and ... and hantaviruses. Marburg disease first appeared in Europe in 1967 in association with monkeys imported ...

  • Deadly virus not airborne 7 Oct 2008 02:58 GMT
    ... 80percent or higher chance of being transmitted. Transmission occurs through bodily fluids, like being exposed ... Africa include Marburg, Ebola, Rift Valley fever, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, Lassa fever- related arenaviruses, and ... and hantaviruses. Marburg disease first appeared in Europe in 1967 in association with monkeys imported ...

  • Margot Wallström Vice-President of the European Commission Public Diplomacy and its role in the EU's external relations Mortara Center for International Studies, Georgetown University Washington DC, 2 October 2008 6 Oct 2008 22:57 GMT
    ... Public Diplomacy and its role in the EU's external relations Mortara Center for International Studies, ... they think. Don't let me down! We Europeans believe that public diplomacy plays a special ... the elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo a year or two ago, but we ...

  • Margot Wallström Vice-President of the European Commission Public Diplomacy and its role in the EU's external relations Georgetown University Washington DC, 2 October 2008 6 Oct 2008 22:34 GMT
    ... Public Diplomacy and its role in the EU's external relations Mortara Center for International Studies, ... they think. Don't let me down! We Europeans believe that public diplomacy plays a special ... the elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo a year or two ago, but we ...


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